MORNING MANNA 2-10-24
LIVING FOR WHAT WILL LAST
“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth”.–Colossians 3:1-2
What Paul says here is perfectly clear. There’s no reason for anyone to be confused about what they ought to do. But some people just don’t get it. They hear the truth and they know what good sound reasoning would say, but they simply don’t do it. Instead of putting it into practice they keep doing the same foolish things over and over again.Let’s face it, we know better than we do. Man’s lack of wisdom is obvious.
J.C. Ryle warned about this many years ago. He said, “Oh, that men and women would learn to live with the awareness that one day they are going to die! Truly, it is waste of time to set our hearts on a dying world and its short-lived comforts and pleasures; and for the sake of momentary pleasures—-Here we are striving, laboring, exhausting ourselves about little things, and running here and there like ants on an anthill! And yet after a few years, we will all be gone–and another generation will take our place. Let us live for eternity! Let us seek His Kingdom and His Righteousness that can never be taken from us!” That’s the answer. But, will you act on it?
Were we wise we would heed what James said,”But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”(James 1:22). Those who do so will leave a legacy worth following.- HDS
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E.
Humble, Tx. 77346
